What IS a Bad Penny?
Okay, okay, sorry.
It's just that my NaNoWriMo book (I say book since it's not really fiction yet --which is just how I write) has me all on FIRE (I don't mean literally because that would be bad and this is good) and I'm spending my every free moment on it. I haven't been this excited about a writing project (other than this blog) in a long time.
Please forgive the scarcity of posts for a few weeks. Unless I continue drinking VAST amounts of coffee, in which case, please forgive the enormous backlog of posts suddenly appearing all on the same day.
Meanwhile, look what happens when the puppy gets bored:
Yes. He ate part of our couch.
Apparently, he (and Scout. Mostly Scout) also barks a lot when bored. While Coop was in the hospital getting his appendix removed, the dogs were outside a lot more and were driving our neighbors crazy. So we've installed this device that hangs on the fence and emits a high-pitched frequency when the dogs bark. Humans can't hear it but dogs can.
It seems to be working.
However, Scout, never the poster child for canine mental health, now refuses to go out into the backyard. Is that a problem?
Here are a series of YouTube videos that I took while trying to take the dogs on a walk this morning. If you are receiving the blog via e-mail, you have to click on the post title and actually visit the blog to see them. (Mom, I'm talking to you. The videos are full of fall foliage! You'll love them! There are a lot of them but altogether, it's only about five minutes long!)
I didn't actually mean to take this one but oh, what the heck.
It's just that my NaNoWriMo book (I say book since it's not really fiction yet --which is just how I write) has me all on FIRE (I don't mean literally because that would be bad and this is good) and I'm spending my every free moment on it. I haven't been this excited about a writing project (other than this blog) in a long time.
Please forgive the scarcity of posts for a few weeks. Unless I continue drinking VAST amounts of coffee, in which case, please forgive the enormous backlog of posts suddenly appearing all on the same day.
Meanwhile, look what happens when the puppy gets bored:
Yes. He ate part of our couch.Apparently, he (and Scout. Mostly Scout) also barks a lot when bored. While Coop was in the hospital getting his appendix removed, the dogs were outside a lot more and were driving our neighbors crazy. So we've installed this device that hangs on the fence and emits a high-pitched frequency when the dogs bark. Humans can't hear it but dogs can.
It seems to be working.
However, Scout, never the poster child for canine mental health, now refuses to go out into the backyard. Is that a problem?
Here are a series of YouTube videos that I took while trying to take the dogs on a walk this morning. If you are receiving the blog via e-mail, you have to click on the post title and actually visit the blog to see them. (Mom, I'm talking to you. The videos are full of fall foliage! You'll love them! There are a lot of them but altogether, it's only about five minutes long!)
I didn't actually mean to take this one but oh, what the heck.
Comments
Poor Scouty.
Even if you got lost.
Seriously - Scout and fears: You don't want him so afraid of the noise that he won't go outside at all, do you? (Don't take that the wrong way - the first thing I did in the new place was fence the back yard for Aurora. Aurora takes 3 walks (min) a day.)
I had one of those units - Boris, a wonderfully intelligent sweet giant samoyed, when he saw me come outside with it would go under a tree and lie down and pout. It made me feel terrible - but it got the point across. If you can't quit barking, this fun-killer comes out.
Scout needs to know that it is not a random screech but something he has control over. Does yours come with any adjustable settings? Does he even know it is there?
Bethany
We put a bark collar on our dog years ago but she would hide in the pantry and look pathetic. She never got the connection between the barking and the shock. We gave up.
So, now you know.